Peanuts: Charlie Brown, His Friends, and Baseball (1963 - Part 1)

by Paul Semendinger

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I always enjoyed Charles Schulz’s famous Peanuts comic strips. Like so many people, those characters were a big part of my childhood.

A number of years ago, a collection of books (The Complete Peanuts) was produced that chronicle the complete and entire collection of every single Peanuts comic strip. With every single strip available, I decided to set about reading the entire collection. It is fascinating seeing how the strip and the characters developed over time.

I thought it would be fun to chronicle here the history of how Charles Schulz used baseball in the Peanuts strips.

I hope you enjoy this historical look back at Charlie Brown and his friends and the wonderful game of baseball…

Each comic strip comes from the wonderful site: Peanuts Wiki.. *** THE 1963 “SEASON” (Part 1):

One of the most famous strips of all-time ran on December 22, 1962:

The theme was repeated on January 28, 1963:

Here is the rest of 1963 - Part 1:

ON DECK - The 1963 Peanuts Season (Part 2)

*** PREVIOUS ARTICLES IN THIS SERIES: PEANUTS: CHARLIE BROWN, HIS FRIENDS, AND BASEBALL (1951) PEANUTS: CHARLIE BROWN, HIS FRIENDS, AND BASEBALL (1952) PEANUTS: CHARLIE BROWN, HIS FRIENDS, AND BASEBALL (1953) PEANUTS: CHARLIE BROWN, HIS FRIENDS, AND BASEBALL (1954) PEANUTS: CHARLIE BROWN, HIS FRIENDS, AND BASEBALL (1955) PEANUTS: CHARLIE BROWN, HIS FRIENDS, AND BASEBALL (1956) PEANUTS: CHARLIE BROWN, HIS FRIENDS, AND BASEBALL (1957 - PART 1) PEANUTS: CHARLIE BROWN, HIS FRIENDS, AND BASEBALL (1957 - PART 2) PEANUTS: CHARLIE BROWN, HIS FRIENDS, AND BASEBALL (1958 - PART 1) PEANUTS: CHARLIE BROWN, HIS FRIENDS, AND BASEBALL (1958 -PART 2) PEANUTS: CHARLIE BROWN, HIS FRIENDS, AND BASEBALL (1959 - PART 1) PEANUTS: CHARLIE BROWN, HIS FRIENDS, AND BASEBALL (1959 - PART 2) PEANUTS: CHARLIE BROWN, HIS FRIENDS, AND BASEBALL (1960 - PART 1) PEANUTS: CHARLIE BROWN, HIS FRIENDS, AND BASEBALL (1960 - PART 2) PEANUTS: CHARLIE BROWN, HIS FRIENDS, AND BASEBALL (1960 - PART 3) PEANUTS: CHARLIE BROWN, HIS FRIENDS, AND BASEBALL (1961 - PART 1) PEANUTS: CHARLIE BROWN, HIS FRIENDS, AND BASEBALL (1961 - PART 2)

PEANUTS: CHARLIE BROWN, HIS FRIENDS, AND BASEBALL (1961 - PART 3)

PEANUTS: CHARLIE BROWN, HIS FRIENDS, AND BASEBALL (1962 - PART 1)

PEANUTS: CHARLIE BROWN, HIS FRIENDS, AND BASEBALL (1962 - PART 2)

PEANUTS: CHARLIE BROWN, HIS FRIENDS, AND BASEBALL (1962 - PART 3)